Tour de France Stage 7 - Tomblaine to La Super Planche des Belles Filles (176.3km)

retalivity

Stage underway, still no break...

Pog to make it 2 in a row, more than likely. I'll have a punt on Vlasov to mix it up.

mewso

Break might be allowed to win depending on who is in it. Put a couple of quid on Kamna but the main interest is to see the form of the GC guys whether they are competing for the win or not.

When did it become super? I don't recall it having super in it's name in previous years.

retalivity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119308643#Comment_119308643

The Super bit is the last k or so on the gravel. Planche des belles filles is only the climb on the asphalt

EDIT:, its the last 24% here

devonp

they said on GCN or ITV4 last night that the gravel bit was so steep they had to tarmac the last 100-200m before the line, due to lack of traction/grip

retalivity

Pog & UAE look like they want to make a statement today, pulling the break back already

mewso

Well UAE are showing in a big way here. So much for my Kamna punt.

Junior

If you want to brush up on your French .. https://ice.creacast.com/lequipe-au1

That's a link to live race radio, it's very good you get to hear a lot more than the cameras show.

Seb's voice is very recognisable isn't it if you are used to the Cycling Podcast

EDIT : Found it , interview with Seb from a few months back.

https://cyclingtips.com/2022/04/meet-seb-piquet-cyclings-voice-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/

retalivity

The tiny sliver of hope for making it a race is the idea that Pog doesn't like the heat, its looking pretty hot there today and the forecast for the next few weeks for Southern France is hot as well. Gap to the break going back out again, 2 UAE lads dropped so far

Squidgy Black

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309316#Comment_119309316

I'm amazed they're flogging themselves this hard this early chasing the break, Hirschi out the back as well

De Bhál

Bradley "money for old rope" Wiggins

Froome getting dropped lol

Mefistofelino

Chris " I feel like I'm finally back to my best form" Froome working hard not to be dropped by the peleton

retalivity

Kamna is full of beans, closed that gap to Geschke in about 10seconds!

mewso

Come on Lenny. 33/1 :) Not sure if the gap is big enough tbh.

Ah no Pinot gone.

Mefistofelino

Supporting Pinot is like Dr Johnson's verdict on second marriages "A triumph of hope over experience"

mewso

Vlasov. Blimey.

Mefistofelino

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309316#Comment_119309316

Probably turn out that Pog did his winter training inside an active volcano and is now immune to heat too.

Bardet and Quintana still in there towards the front.

Morris Garren

AH SHUT DA Fxxx UP CARLTON!!

What a terrible dose

But go on Kamna, great ride

Paddigol

Could Nairoman be the man to wheelsuck and happyslap Pog off the top step this year?

'No' is undoubtedly the wise answer... if only he wasn't a disaster in TTs.

Squidgy Black

Forgot how much I love mountain top finishes.

Poor Kemna

retalivity

Ah Pog you bnackstard!

cheese sandwich

Pog is superhuman 🫥

mewso

Kamna might have made it if Vingegaard didn't decide to give Pog a leadout :)

Mefistofelino

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309694#Comment_119309694

Nairoman is focusing on his sprinting this year

neris

That was some finish. Poor wanty rider running his bike up the last hundred metres

mewso

Mas and Bardet hung on well. Can't see how much time Vlasov lost.

Morris Garren

Vinnygo

Vinyagaad

Vinogo

Vinyago

Viningaard

The Danish lad from Yumbo....

?

Squidgy Black

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309743#Comment_119309743

You forgot Vingogogo as Kelly likes to call him sometimes

Squidgy Black

Jonas up out of the saddle 100m giving it his all with Pog behind him still sitting down closing the gap sums it up for me to be honest

mewso

Interesting stat on PCS. Pog has twice as many stage wins in the Tour (8) as Cav and Sagan had at the same age.

ARX

La Super Planche des Belles Filles - the Super Plank of the Lovely Girls?

Mefistofelino

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309805#Comment_119309805

They all have Super Planks

retalivity

The japanese tdf coverage is a bit mental

https://twitter.com/jardinmondial/status/1545437193014898688

ratracer

It’s kinda disappointing that the race is effectively over since yesterday, and then confirmed today! Nobody else is getting in yellow now to Paris.

I probably said it the last couple of years too, but I really hope Pogacar is that good, and not the next Lance, he just seems to have something way above the rest of the peloton.

stevencn88

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310091#Comment_119310091

Given the sports history it difficult not think there is something alright.

Squidgy Black

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310091#Comment_119310091

The thing with Pog is, he's been on a mental level since the start. Finished 5th in the tour of Slovenia when he was only 18, and riding with a Slovenian continental team, 3rd in the tour of Hungary, won the tour de l'Avenir when he was 19, was the youngest ever winner of a UCI WT race a year later, then added 3 stage wins of the Vuelta to top it off.

ratracer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310386#Comment_119310386

I know he has, and believe me I’m really, really, really hoping that he is just an immense talent that no-one in the pro peloton can touch. Can’t begrudge him his success, but the rest of them must be asking “what’s the point”! Anyway, that’s for another day, that hopefully never comes, it’s be nice to see a bit of a race to the finish though.

griffin100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310102#Comment_119310102

I think we all hope it’s clean and above board but I think it was Ross Tucker who suggested we should always be a bit suspicious when a country starts to dominate a sport out of the blue (Pog and Rog?).

Could also make the same point about Sky in the early days.

As for JV as a team riding away from the peloton regularly in early season events well that’s a different story (remember they are just the latest incarnation of Rabobank).

dahat

UAE were woeful up to now but had the legs to chase all day today. Sometimes you wonder are we all being fooled.

A bit like Usian Bolt who left quite a legacy in athletics I hope time proves the same for Podjacar.

stevencn88

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310429#Comment_119310429

yeah I fully hope it’s clean…..but at the time I completely believed Lance was also clean.

Squidgy Black

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310400#Comment_119310400

Yeah maybe it’s just because he’s such a likeable bastard, but I think he’s just superhuman.

Its such a shame that the UCI and ASO are such useless cnuts that the reputation of the sport is so tarnished that we all immediately question anyone who outperforms the rest

Kaisr Sose

Super Póg.. All this talk of Evenepoel being the next Merckx.... but at this rate it is who will be the next Póg? TT, Sprint, Climb.

He will beat the all time stage wins with ease at this rate, and TDF wins too. I think he is clean too. It's a pity for the sport, but understandable that there will always be questions over anyone that dominates and appears above all the rest.

There is still a long way to Paris...and Vinegard can climb and has dropped Póg last year.

"This race is not over"

Greg Le Mond, 1989....Allez..

griffin100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310529#Comment_119310529

That’s the problem though in some respects- there are serious questions yet to be answered about Jamaican sprinting but they probably never will be due to the need to protect the Bolt legacy. If Lance’s ego had allowed him to retire gracefully he’d still have his TdF’s I think.

I hope Pogacar is clean, and if all riders are subject to the same doping controls then unless he has access to undetectable PEDs then he probably is. There will always be a nagging doubt though about any dominant rider.

bazermc

I was going to post this yesterday but the Tour is definitely over now.

Kaisr Sose

Maybe... but the winner must get to the end in Paris for it to be over...back to Fignon in 89, he thought he had already won before Paris, then he lost it in Paris.

Sport is about hope and unknown outcomes until the line/final whistle.

I will still enjoy watching it and hope its good racing (not Skyesque measured and boring racing) every day. The best rider will win and if that is Póg, he will have to work for it and not think its in the bag after 7 days.

Yeah and sure Pog could test positive and it's race over.

Raoul Duke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310798#Comment_119310798

I think he has to be found infectious to get kicked out.